Thornton Wilder Quotes

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder

Great, Rest, Danger

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder

Freedom, Alone, Decisions

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Thornton Wilder

Marriage, She, Bribe

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Thornton Wilder

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Thornton Wilder

Home, Wish, Adventure

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder

Enjoy, Why, Advice

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Thornton Wilder

Pet, Love, Lost

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Thornton Wilder

Love, Energy, Value

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder

Said, Alive, Moments

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Thornton Wilder

Time, Rather, Eye

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Thornton Wilder

Another, Few, Unhappy

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

Work, Great, Moment

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Thornton Wilder

Nothing, Different, Show

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder

Faith, Hope, Nothing

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
Thornton Wilder

Good, Danger, Stands

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder

Success, Good, Nothing

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
Thornton Wilder

Life, Alone, Fool

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder

Love, Living, Dead

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
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Good, Moment, Excellent

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
Thornton Wilder

Love, Poet, Island

A play visibly represents pure existing.
Thornton Wilder

Play, Pure, Existing

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
Thornton Wilder

Best, Friend, Writer

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Thornton Wilder

Become, Silent, Attentive

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton Wilder

Happiness, God, Best

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Thornton Wilder

Human, Made, Action

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: April 17, 1897

Died: December 7, 1975

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